Nope, not fatigue. I just went through the game logs for the 24 players I looked at. Six had played a game at less than 100%, resulting in a total of 2 errors out of the 50 committed by the 24 players. The lowest any of those six got was 93%.

The record for most errors by a team in a season in MLB is the 1963 Mets' 200. 15 of the 24 teams in this league are on pace for more than that, with four more on pace for 178 or more. Small Sample Size or Random Variation would work both ways, not just an increase.

Changes within the last 90 days...

01/11/2013

Engine fix for OF fielding. Transposed number in 12/31 update caused a small drag on OF defense.

Is this related to that fix they made in January? Perhaps the same transposition exists for the live engine and they didn't fix that? It seems as if the main issues are with OF defense...

That appears to be exactly the problem. I went through the OF and SS with the most errors. The 10 OF I looked at average being on pace for 7.7x their actual errors, and the SS average 1.5x RL pace. Several of the players at each pos are on the same teams, which eliminates the deadball-pitching issue — on my team, OF Jimmy McAleer is on pace for 185 E/162 compared to 32 E/162 in MLB; SS Honus Wagner is on pace for 34.7 compared to 42.1 in MLB.

On a fun (for everyone but his GM) note, Bing Miller (B fielding) is on pace for 297 errors.

Data below for highest-error players at OF/SS through an average of about 25 games per team.

Changes within the last 90 days...

01/11/2013

Engine fix for OF fielding. Transposed number in 12/31 update caused a small drag on OF defense.

Is this related to that fix they made in January? Perhaps the same transposition exists for the live engine and they didn't fix that? It seems as if the main issues are with OF defense...

That appears to be exactly the problem. I went through the OF and SS with the most errors. The 10 OF I looked at average being on pace for 7.7x their actual errors, and the SS average 1.5x RL pace. Several of the players at each pos are on the same teams, which eliminates the deadball-pitching issue — on my team, OF Jimmy McAleer is on pace for 185 E/162 compared to 32 E/162 in MLB; SS Honus Wagner is on pace for 34.7 compared to 42.1 in MLB.

On a fun (for everyone but his GM) note, Bing Miller (B fielding) is on pace for 297 errors.

Data below for highest-error players at OF/SS through an average of about 25 games per team.

More curiosities as we complete day 2 without a response other than the original canned answer that it's working fine ...

This appears to be the only Live league affected by the problem. I checked four others that use a mix of players throughout the data base (to include the deadball pitcher effect) and the OF fielding seems normal in all of them. A draft-center search found a total of 3 OF (primary position, 450+ PA) with fielding percentages under .900. This one league has 13 of them among the 25 OF with the most innings.

Based on the data, it does seem like the 1/11/2013 update did not take for LIVE. We have rebooted the service this AM and verified the proper engine is in place. Based on log data and the data you provided, it does seem there was an issue with this.

Thank you for your persistence. We apologize it took a few days from your original ticket to get this resolved.